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CABBIE USED BY LEEDS DEALER TO DO BUSINESS - UNTIL HE DROVE OFF WITH HIS COCAINE
A Leeds teenage drug dealer used an unsuspecting private hire driver to drive him about, until the worried cabbie took off with his drugs still in the car. The driver contacted his dispatch office for advice after Hashir Khan ordered him to
drive around
Beeston, but without giving him a destination. When Khan made him stop for a third time and got out at a petrol station, the driver took off, but still had Khan’s cocaine. The police were then called. On December 17 last year, Khan ordered the PHV to pick him up with an initial intention of going to White Rose shopping centre, Leeds Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Harry Crowson said Khan got into the passenger seat and another man got in the back.
But rather than go to White Rose, the 18-year-old said he would guide the driver to their destination, first stopping behind a mosque on Dewsbury Road when the second man got out, and a third male, wearing a balaclava, dropped a bag through the window to Khan. He then asked the driver to take him to a shop in Beeston where he got out and got back in minutes later, then the Jet petrol garage where he got out again. On advice of the taxi base, the driver then drove off. The bag left behind contained 64g of cocaine, and 900g of a cutting agent. However, Khan ordered another PHV and demanded to be taken to the base. He was quickly detained by police when he arrived. Khan, from Beeston, Leeds, was
disruptive, spitting in the back of the police van, the station’s waiting area and in his cell. He then hit the cleaner with his trainer. He later admitted dealing in cocaine, criminal damage and assault.
No mitigation was offered by his barrister after Judge Christopher Batty said due to Khan’s paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis, he would follow the medical recommend- ation to detain him in hospital, not prison, until further notice. Judge Batty told Khan: “You’re not well but luckily you are improving. The medication and assistance you are getting in hospital is helping. “At the moment your schizo- phrenia is such that you should be detained under section 37 of the Mental Health Act.”
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